Russian oil price ceiling, UN on gender equality, record consumer loans from Russians: the main thing for business December 3

World

• Australia and the G7 countries, following the European Union, agreed to a “ceiling” of $60 a barrel for Russian oil prices from December 5 “or shortly thereafter.”
• The UN said advancing gender equality would boost the economy by $12 trillion by 2025.
• Turkmenistan and the United Arab Emirates increased their trade volume by 296% in nine months. At the same time, Turkmenistan and Russia will create a transport, transit and logistics commission to increase the number of bilateral and transit traffic.
• In March-October, Thailand was visited by a record 147 thousand Russian tourists, only in October the flow from the Russian Federation exceeded 44 thousand (previously the average was less than 10 thousand per month) – Bloomberg.

Russia

• Three Crimean hotels won the main prizes of the National Hotel Award, which was attended by more than 400 nominees from 35 regions (159 finalists).
• In October, the number of consumer loans in the Russian Federation increased by 10% from September and reached 2.353 million loans, this is the highest since the beginning of the year (Scoring Bureau).
• 23% of Russians consider their financial situation to be “good” (FOM).
• Commercial interest in business travel abroad is picking up, but has not yet reached pre-Covid levels, and the share of European countries in the total number of bookings has halved (from 48% to 22 %).
• The main professions for people with disabilities include a programmer, a jeweler, a designer and a surveyor.

• The Agency for the Development of Regional Tourism in Yamal stated that it would increase the flow of tourists in the region by 70% by 2030 (up to 300,000 tourists).

• In the Nizhny Novgorod region, they began to produce Russian-Belarusian trams under the working name “MiNiN” (Minsk + Nizhny Novgorod).

• The Cabinet of Ministers of the Russian Federation approved the initiative on digital tax notifications through State Services. The corresponding bill will be submitted to the State Duma in the near future.

business and technology

• The number of discriminatory messages on Twitter has increased by 61% in the two weeks since Elon Musk bought it (The New York Times).

• The NashStore app store will be pre-installed on data leak-protected Rostec AYYA home smartphones, which are called “trusted phones” within the manufacturing company.

• FBI Director Chris Wray said Chinese internet technology company ByteDance’s TikTok could be used for “espionage purposes” – Business Insider.

• The Leader company, which manages the NPF and FIU funds, is demanding a court order on the agreement between Vimpelcom and the Veon group of companies, from which the management of the Russian company wants to buy assets in the Russian Federation. The reason is VimpelCom’s refusal to assume Veon’s Eurobond obligations. The court denied the request to prohibit the transaction, but hearings on Veon’s claim of debts with Leader will continue.

• Revenue from personal data sellers on dark web marketplaces for 8 months from September 2020 to April 2021 amounted to $140 million The three largest marketplaces, Apollon, WhiteHouse, and Agartha, accounted for 58% of all providers. The highest revenue was $91.6 million from Agartha (ArsTechnica research).

• Tops brand Balenciaga has personally apologized for the incorrect ad campaign. The scandal with photos and videos of children with toys in the BDSM style has been going on since November 16.

• FTX has put its most valuable asset, the LedgerX derivatives exchange, up for sale. The company, which had about $303 million in November, is in the crosshairs of Blockchain.com and Gemini.

• The Michelin stars of Moscow restaurants will be strictly linked to the year of assignment. Moscow restorers will not be able to confirm the status in 2023.

• Apple has released an optimization to speed up AI image generation by half. So far, we are only talking about the popular Stable Diffusion neural network.